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Upgrading my 3770K to 6770k/6800k

MikeTheVike
By MikeTheVike
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I currently have an i7 3770K, I've been wanting to upgrade my CPU for the past while and cannot determine whether or not the upgrade would be worth while. I have been looking at the 6700K and 6800K. Main area I am hoping for improvement would be in Adobe Premiere CC where I am exporting H264 1080p video. Will I notice a big gain in performance? Would the 6800K be a lot faster or is the 6700K enough of an upgrade already? Or should I wait yet another generation.

 

I have a GTX 980 which already reduces encoding times significantly. 

 

Any other noticeable improvements? Gaming performance is near identical from what I've seen so I'm not concerned about that.

 

If you have any suggestions please let me know!

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4 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Seems like you'd see about a 10% boost in real-world performance (20ish in benchmarks: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-3770K/3502vs1317). With CUDA acceleration, cores make less of a difference than per-core performance (Linus did a video on this, I think) so the 6700k's probably good enough. But you might want to wait until Kaby Lake releases for some price drops

Wow, that's hilarious.

 

This CPU is over 3 years old, you would think that the performance difference would be a little more than 20% :D

 

I mean come on, my GTX 980 is hardly a year old and the 1080 is like 60%+ faster, IN A YEAR. Come on Intel...

 

Guess I'll keep waiting until Intel steps up their game. Its mighty tempting to upgrade as its been so long, and I truly question how long this PC will last... but 20%? Hell no, that's just a waste.

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I'd wait for the IPC improvements of Skylake-X if you can hold out until the middle of next year. After that I doubt Kaby Lake-X or Cannonlake-X would be much of an improvement.

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Intel doesnt have to do anything to up its game. All they gotta do is small improvements and they are still light years ahead of AMD.

They want the max dollar for their effort, so they will do minor changes. I wait 8 to 10 years before I upgrade the CPU. Went from a HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 2 5050e to a HP EliteDesk i5-4570, which will last another 10+ years because its an office computer. By the time I buy another computer, there will be huge improvements with every aspect of the home computer PC. Plus prices for a 1080 will be dirt cheap :):);):o

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Step up your budget and get 1700 buck CPU. 

Main RIg Corsair Air 540, I7 9900k, ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero, G.Skill Ripjaws 3600 32GB, 3090FE, EVGA 1000G5, Acer Nitro XZ3 2560 x 1440@240hz 

 

Spare RIg Lian Li O11 AIR MINI, I7 4790K, Asus Maximus VI Extreme, G.Skill Ares 2400 32Gb, EVGA 1080ti, 1080sc 1070sc & 1060 SSC, EVGA 850GA, Acer KG251Q 1920x1080@240hz

 

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